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Murder twins relationship booze-fuelled, ‘toxic’: Reports

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Monday, November 28, 2016
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In this Oct. 12, 2011, file photo, Anastasia, left, and Alexandria Duval, known as Alison and Ann Dadow before they changed their names, stand in the window of their yoga studio in West Palm Beach, Fla. Alexandria Duval was arrested Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, after being tracked down at an Albany, N.Y., home. The arrest comes after the Maui Police Department issued a warrant for Alexandria Duval's arrest when a grand jury indicted her on a second-degree murder charge. She's accused of killed her twin sister, Anastasia, after their vehicle plunged off a Hawaii cliff in May 2016. (Thomas Cordy/Palm Beach Post via AP, via AP, File)

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The blond twins at the centre of a Hawaii murder mystery had a toxic relationship that was made explosive when booze was involved, a former boyfriend told People.

Yoga gurus Alexandria Duval was charged with murdering her sister Anastasia in Hawaii earlier this year.

Police believed the pair were fighting in their car when it was deliberately driven off the road.

Florida chef Keith Weiss dated Anastasia for about a year and saw first-hand the duo’s difficult relationship.

“The first time, Ann was driving, and they just started fighting,” he told People.

“She let go of the wheel and they were going back and forth with each other, oblivious to the obvious danger and the other cars around us. She almost lost control of the car.”

A second incident prompted Weiss to ditch Ann.

“We were driving home and they wanted me to stop so they could get some wine,” he told the magazine.

“But I didn’t want to stop, and Ann, she started kicking my hands ... kicking them off of the steering wheel. Alison (now known as Alexandria) was kicking the windows and they were screaming, ‘I want you to stop!’ I told them, ‘You’re going to end up killing us’.

“They didn’t care.”

Witnesses who had been driving behind the twins told cops that the pair were engaged in a physical fight; Anastasia (in the front passenger seat) was pulling her sister’s hair in the seconds before the fatal plunge.

The twins achieved minor, local fame in southern Florida and Hawaii with their yoga studio. In Florida, it was clear Alexandria was jealous of her sister, Weiss said.

“It almost seemed like Alison was jealous of Ann, who always got the guy,” he told People. “Alison was just a bystander, basically. Alison was always the one who was tagging along.”

He added: “There was just so much drama. They would really get into it. I remember this one time, the three of us were at the mall, and Ann smacked Alison in the back of the head. Hard. They raged. They went back and forth with each other, pulling hair, pinching each other ... it was as if they had blocked everything out around them.”

In the days before Anastasia was killed in the crash, the twins were reportedly at a crossroads of failed businesses and money woes. And underneath was a crazed darkness.

“They were wolves in sheep’s clothing. They used yoga as a mask. They wanted nothing more than to be rich and famous,” one former employee told The Palm Beach Post. “They were very authoritative and not empowering.”

Alexandria is fighting efforts to extradite her to Hawaii. She is scheduled to reappear in court on Dec. 16.